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Business Development and Partnerships Lead, LATAM

Duolingo is the world’s most popular way to learn a language. Our mission is to develop the best education in the world and make it universally available.

Duolingo

Employee count: 1001-5000

Mexico only

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Our mission at Duolingo is to develop the best education in the world and make it universally available. It’s a big mission, and that’s where you come in!

At Duolingo, you’ll join a team that cares about educating our users, experimenting with big ideas, making fact-based decisions, and finding innovative solutions to complex problems. You’ll have limitless learning opportunities and daily collaborations with world-class minds — while doing work that’s both meaningful and fun.

Join our life-changing mission to develop education for our half a billion (and growing!) learners around the world.

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About the role...

Come lead partnerships and business development for Duolingo in LATAM (with particular focus on Mexico and Brazil).

Partnerships are a rapidly growing function at Duolingo, with a global team based in New York and regional leadership in Europe and Asia. We are now seeking an experienced business development leader to bring a strategic, structured, and proactive approach to scaling our business in LATAM.

In this role, you will manage existing partnerships and pipeline while sourcing and developing new opportunities. You will build data-driven business cases to establish strategic partnerships that drive user growth, brand awareness, and monetization, including support for brand licensing partnerships.

As our resident expert on the region, you will demonstrate a deep understanding of the market dynamics and use your skills and network to build partnerships that are value-accretive to Duolingo and our partners. Reporting to the Global Head of Consumer Partnerships, you will collaborate with marketing, design, product, and engineering teams in the US and around the world.

icon-brain-16pxYou will...

  • Leverage market insights and a deep understanding of the regional partnership landscape to develop and communicate an effective LATAM partnership strategy, with a focus on Mexico and Brazil
  • Lead our existing partnerships and pipeline in LATAM across verticals (app stores, telcos, media and entertainment, banks, public institutions, payment providers, etc.)
  • Expand Duolingo’s partnership portfolio by sourcing new opportunities with measurable impact on key business metrics
  • Build compelling, quantitative business cases to support strategic partnership investments
  • Negotiate and implement partnerships across user growth, brand, and monetization
  • Collaborate with global and local Marketing on brand partnerships and to amplify partnership launches
  • Partner closely with Product and Engineering teams to influence product integrations critical to successful partnership execution

icon-check-16pxYou have...

  • 7+ years of business development experience, with a track record of successfully developing partnerships in digital consumer (B2C) technology
  • Experience working in consulting, banking, or business development
  • Experience in conceiving, developing, and implementing partnerships throughout their full cycles, from deal sourcing to building business cases, negotiating agreements, driving, and tracking results
  • Deep cultural context and immersion in the regional landscape, and are able to use your network to launch impactful partnerships
  • Ambitious spirit with a track record of achieving great results by building long-lasting external relationships, collaborating effectively with multiple internal teams to drive ideas to execution, and taking a test and scale approach
  • Critical thinking skills and structured thought processes, with the ability to build and communicate compelling, data-driven narratives
  • Proficient in Spanish with excellent English speaking and writing skills
  • Ability to travel internationally frequently, specifically to New York City, Pittsburgh (HQ), and across LATAM

icon-star-16pxExceptional candidates will have...

  • Experience with mobile apps and subscription-based services
  • Experience living and working in multiple LATAM markets
  • Working proficiency in Portuguese
  • An MBA or equivalent experience from a reputable university
  • Excitement for our mission to make high-quality language learning accessible to everyone

Take a peek at how we care for our employees' holistic well-being with our benefits here.

We will do everything we can within reason to make sure that your interview takes place in an environment that fairly and accurately assesses your skills. If you need assistance or accommodation, please contact accommodations@duolingo.com.

Duolingo is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.

By applying for this position your data will be processed as per the Duolingo Applicant Privacy Notice.

Unfortunately, there is a rise in scammers pretending to be real Duolingo employees. Duolingo and our employees will never ask for your Social Security number, bank details, or passport info, and we’ll never ask you to deposit a check, purchase equipment, or exchange money during the interview process. Real Duolingo employees always use an email that ends in @duolingo.com or @recruiting.duolingo.com. Stay alert and double-check these details before sharing any information.

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7 years minimum

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Mexico +/- 0 hours

About Duolingo

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Our mission at Duolingo is to develop the best education in the world and make it universally available. But we’ve got more left to do — and that's where you come in!

Duolingo is the most popular language-learning application in the world, with over 500 million users and over half a billion exercises completed daily.

Learning a new language used to be expensive; we believe it should be free. Over 1.2 billion people are learning a second language and most of them are learning English to improve their lives.

Learning a new language is hard; we believe it can be fun. We use bite-sized lessons that feel like playing a game to keep our learners motivated.

Beyond our core learning product, we have also entered into literacy with Duolingo ABC and English proficiency testing with the Duolingo English Test.

We are passionate about educating our users, making fact-based decisions, and finding innovative solutions to complex problems. We offer meaningful work, limitless learning opportunities, and collaboration with world-class minds. Come brighten your life and over half a billion more!

Our mission is to make education fun and accessible to everyone in the world. As Research Director, you will be pioneering new technologies for the Duolingo English Test, the world’s first online adaptive standardized language test, accepted by more than 4,000 institutions.

Employee benefits

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Wellness benefits

On-site gym and massages.

Equity benefits

Competitive salaries and equity.

Paid parental leave

Fully paid parental and adoption leave.

We'll help you buy your first home

First-time home buyer bonus (in Pittsburgh)

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Duolingo

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1001-5000 employees

Founded in

2011

Chief executive officer

Luis von Ahn

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